Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: farewell to the ‘grandfather of rap’ | The Guardian
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin – sometimes known as “the grandfather of rap” – who has died aged 73 of cancer, was born on 24 July 1944 in New York, growing up…
Alabama HBCU Apologizes 58 Years After Expelling 9 Students for Sit-In Protest | Atlanta Black Star
It’s been a long time coming, but the Alabama State Board of Education finally expunged the records of nine Alabama State College students who were expelled for their civil rights…
How Philadelphia closed homeless ‘heroin camps’ amid US opioid crisis | The Guardian
First came the warnings, then the deluge. The city of Philadelphia moved to clear out two notorious underpass encampments of heroin users in the rundown Kensington district this week after…
Online Beauty Supply Shop For Black And Hispanic Women Is Safe, Lucrative Haven | Huffington Post
Black buying power shouldn’t be overlooked or ignored, especially by beauty brands and business owners. According to a recent Nielsen report, last year “black shoppers spent $473 million in total…
The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement | The Atlantic
There’s an enduring myth that the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was “the first step” in the fight to desegregate schools. Rachel Devlin, an associate professor of history…
‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking | The New York Times
I don’t want you to be sassy,” the director John Doyle told Soara-Joye Ross during a recent rehearsal for the musical “Carmen Jones.” Ms. Ross was taken aback. And Mr.…
By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history
By Maria Anderson “Erased Lynching Series: der Wild West Show,” (Set 1) by Ken Gonzalez-Day, 2006. (Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles) An old black-and-white photograph…
Meet The Last Surviving Witness To The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 | NPR
On May 31, 1921, six-year-old Olivia Hooker was home with her family in Tulsa, Okla., when a group of white men came through the backyard carrying torches. Her mother quickly…
This Maker Is Helping to Build a More Inclusive Movement | Next City
Nisha Blackwell is stitching up her neighborhood and making it stronger. Blackwell was born and raised in Homewood, a majority black neighborhood in east Pittsburgh. Today, it has 2,000 vacant…
Accidental Cuban Refugee Learns to Overcome Adversity | Voice of America (VOA)
When the electricity went out in the Havana neighborhood where she lived, Jessi Calzado-Esponda remembers her family often brought out the guitars. This memory of singing and dancing in the…